WordPress Tips

We’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating. WordPress is the world’s top platform with over 27% of the Internet powered by WordPress. WordPress trends are the leaders in web development trends. WordPress version 4.8 came out in 2017, which included new and improved widgets for adding audio, images, and video to your website. In addition, the update added the capability to perform multi-site updates and improved upon its text editor.

We’ve posted before about web development trends in 2018. Here’s more on what we can expect from WordPress specifically in 2018.

New WordPress Features and Improvements

WordPress 4.9 was released late last year, and we are already seeing WordPress 4.9.2 released several days ago. Named Tipton in honor of jazz musician and band leader Billy Tipton, version 4.9 offers smoother design workflow and help with coding errors.

Featuring locking, scheduling, preview links, and design drafts, the Customizer workflow facilitates improved collaboration for content creators. In addition, code syntax highlighting and error checking improves the site building experience, while a new Gallery widget and improvements to theme browsing and switching create a smoother experience overall.

Draft and Schedule Design Customizations

Now you can draft and revise posts and schedule them to go live anytime you choose. You can make changes to your site’s design and schedule those to go live anytime as well.

Collaborate with Design Preview

Do you want feedback prior to implementing site design changes? WordPress 4.9 offers you a preview link that you can send to colleagues and clients. You can gather feedback and integrate the changes before going live. This greatly improves the collaboration between stakeholders.

Design Locking Protects Your Changes

If multiple developers are working on the same project, WordPress 4.9’s design lock feature, which is similar to post locking, will secure the draft design and prevent anyone else from making changes to it or even erasing it.

A Prompt to Protect Your Work

If you become distracted or drawn away from you workspect prior to saving your new draft designs, WordPress 4.9 will ask whether or not you want to save your unsaved changes once you return to your desk.

Syntax Highlighting and Error Checking

If you encounter a display problem, but can’t quite pinpoint the problem in the CSS you wrote, WordPress syntax highlighting and error checking for CSS editing will help. The custom HTML widget helps identify errors quickly, and it’s practically guaranteed to help you edit code more efficiently and fix errors quickly.

Sandbox to Avoid Errors

You know the dreaded white screen of death. You can avoid it while working on plugin code and themes in WordPress 4.9 because this version will warn you about saving an error. Nice!

Warnings About Dangerous Practices

When you edit plugins and themes directly, WordPress 4.9 provides a warning if you make a crucial error. Not only that, it will recommend that you draft and test changes prior to updating the file. Another very nice feature!

The New Gallery Widget

This improvement to the media changes brought in WordPress 4.8, you can now add a gallery using this new widget. Time saver!

Add Media to a Text Widget

Now you can add media to a text widget. You can embed audio, video, and images directly into the widget along with your text with one easy Add Media button.

NOYO Web Development recommends WordPress to all its clients. Its robust features and security provides are in continual development and improvement by the best developers across the globe. No other platform offers the features that WordPress does. Contact NOYO Web Development today for a free consultation regarding your new website or an upgrade to your existing site.